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I think what I am is a convener I like to convene people around ideas.
Anna Deavere Smith
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Anna Deavere Smith
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: September 18
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If I do three interviews in a day, I can be exhausted, because the process of hearing everyone requires that I empty out myself. While I'm listening, my own judgments and prejudices certainly come up. But I know I won't get anything unless I get those things out of the way.
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That artists are called to be more responsible and 'true' is a tip of hat to their power.
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For me, first of all, I love people, I love ideas.
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I am lucky: I have fantastic doctors and a fantastic dentist.
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People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.
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Each person has a literature inside them.
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You know, interesting minds usually do hold more than one idea at a time.
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You hang around actors, or dancers, the minute you sneeze, everybody has a remedy, and we're all on a million different kinds of diets, and different kinds of things that we do for exercise.
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Identity is an assemblage of constellations.
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My main concern is theater, and theater does not reflect or mirror society. It has been stingy and selfish, and it has to do better.
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If you think about what acting is supposed to be, my job is to disappear.
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